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The bald, middle-aged man slumps against the wall in the yard. The blood from his companion's head splatters his shirtless chest. He looks to his left, at the headless corpse [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith and Jan-Albert Hootsen El Chapo, once Mexico's most powerful drug lord, now spends his days alone, in a wing of the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center known as [...]

THE RELEASE of Rafael Caro-Quintero from a Mexican prison in August 2013 was a blow to U.S.-Mexico relations, the reputation of the Mexican justice system, and the drug war. Caro-Quintero [...]

IT IS TEMPTING to separate Mexico's drug cartels into six hierarchical groups, each competing for tra fficking turf. The reality, however, is that the Sinaloa Federation, the Gulf Cartel, the [...]

Benjamin Jimenez Hernandez, the bishop of Culiacan, Sinaloa, extended his arm. Speaking in his packed and sweltering church in northwestern Mexico, he called for action, as his flock sweated it [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith In the drug war, Mexico's army may stand down. 'Never did I make a pact. Never!' Gen. Rolando Eugenio Hidalgo Eddy slams his fist on the desk [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith There's reason to believe that the rising bloodshed in Mexico is a sign that the drug war is peaking. The country's recent uptick in violence, including the [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith Events in Mexico's drug war grow more horrific by the day. The recent killing of 72 migrants and a shootout between the Army and 27 cartel gunmen [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith Mexico is the highway of the drug trade, not the destination--or so goes the conventional wisdom. But as authorities there grapple to take down the country's powerful [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith; Mark Hosenball, Maziar Bahari and Joanna Chen; Ginanne Brownell; Barbie Nadeau; Jennie Yabroff; Tony Emerson; Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Bangladesh: Rhymes With Afghanistan ... For 16 years, Bangladesh has [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith, Melinda Liu and Rachel Makabi; Linda Stern; Mark Hosenball; Rebecca Hall; Malak Hamwi; Nisid Hajari Washington: A Worried World The Democrats' victory in last week's U.S. midterm [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith and John Barry The arrest of former U.S. Army Pfc. Steven D. Green--for the alleged rape of an Iraqi woman and the murder of her and three [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith Rising out of the sand near a residential suburb of Dakar, the Demba Diop Stadium was beginning to fill up. Thousands of Senegalese fans sporting green, red [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith A power struggle between the monarchy and Maoist rebels has paralyzed the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal for more than a year. Finally, after 16 consecutive days of [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith Since the February bombing of the sacred Askariya Mosque in Samarra, Iraq has been consumed by sectarian violence. Hundreds have died in reprisal killings carried out by [...]

Byline: Mark Hosenball, Malcolm Beith, Michael Hastings, Christopher Dickey, Sami Kohen, Rod Nordland, Elise Soukup, Ramin Setoodeh, Martha Brant Nukes: Irate Over Intelligence Recent revelations in the British press and [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith Shahrukh Khan has acted in nearly 60 films and produced more than a handful of his own. But at 40 years, he's just hitting his stride. 'Age [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith It's difficult to spot a diamond in the rough. It's even harder to see the beauty in, say, a pig. But football--known as the beautiful game--has, on [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith A year ago it was difficult to find a nightclub in Latin America that wasn't pulsating to 'Gasolina,' a raunchy number by reggaeton star Daddy Yankee. Bootleg [...]

Byline: Mark Hosenball, Malcolm Beith, Aidan Hartley, John Sparks, Charles Gasparino, Silvia Spring, Elise Soukup, Alice Fishburn Iraq: A Very Touchy Subject Analysts at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency have [...]

Byline: Beith, Malcolm To you, maybe. As for her, let's just say dating can get nutty when you have only one ball. By the third date, you've covered the basics--family, [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith, Frank Brown, Michael Isikoff, Emily Flynn, Vibhuti Patel, Kay Itoi, David A. Kaplan, Nicki Gostin Jordan: Truth Lies Within Thanks to recent events in the streets of [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith O woe should be me. yet another Valentine's Day approaches, and here I am, single. Apparently, I should be dreading the day. T shirts emblazoned with love [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith The message is unnerving: 'Warning! Your computer may be infected with spyware.' Too true. Spyware now infects 80 percent of PCs in America. It is a form [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith (With Ginanne Brownell in London) Nursing a broken foot, Wayne Rooney hobbled off the pitch just 27 minutes into England's Euro 2004 quarterfinal against Portugal to the [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith Four Latinos--a Dominican, a Mexican, a Cuban and an Argentine--walk up to the bar. Each asks for the best beer in the house in his own colloquial [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith 'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart and his writers have a new satirical textbook: 'America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction'--already a best seller. PERI's Malcolm [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith (With Mark Duffy in Bogota) When one thinks of welcoming investment climates, Colombia doesn't usually spring to mind. To foreigners, the country is more famous for its [...]

One of the most divisive elections in U.S. history is entering its home stretch, and the race is tighter than ever. As John Kerry and President George W. Bush wage [...]

Byline: Anne Taulane and C.J. Volpe, Malcolm Beith, Bruce Jaffe, Tara Weingarten Design: Children's Mod Squad Eugenio Perazza just wanted a desk for his 2-year-old granddaughter, Anna, a budding artist. [...]

Byline: Emily Flynn and Malcolm Beith (With Karin Bennett In New York, Joe Cochrane In Bangkok, Khieu Kola In Phnom Phen, Marites Vitug In Manila, Sarah Schafer In Beijing, Sudip [...]

The ad fight is on for more than 20 million potential Hispanic votes. 'Honor,' the Dems' latest Spanish-language TV ad, is part of what the Kerry-Edwards team calls the largest [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Or rather, I was born with a British accent in my mouth. Actually, to be honest, I [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith Washington, D.C., is under attack! Swarms of Qaedas are invading the nation's capital. The chatter, as experts call the communication between these envoys of doom, is the [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith Last fall 57-year-old Geoff Wright and his wife traveled from Britain to rural Pennsylvania to stay with an online buddy they'd met on VirtualTourist.com (VT). Their host [...]